quakers

IPA: kwˈeɪkɝz

Root Word: Quakers

Examples of "quakers" in Sentences

"Sham troubles, Master Nic -- wooden guns, as we call quakers out at sea or in a fort.
These imperfections are black beans, broken beans, shells, immature beans ( "quakers"), stones, and pods.
The true Bourbon of the first and second crops is a small bean, and resembles the Mocha, but makes a much handsomer roast with fewer "quakers".
II.cap. i. (1662) was "An act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths."
About this time that set of heretics, called quakers, endeavoured to sow their tares in Fenwick parish, when Mr. Guthrie was some weeks absent, about his own private affairs in Angus.
And though this is made light of by those men called quakers, and other infidels of this generation: Yet I am sure that it will prove true to their cost, who reject it as erroneous and vain.
"Whereas," says the preamble, "an accursed race of heretics called quakers has sprung up," &c. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import quakers into the country.